Henri Delaunay was the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz the first president.The current president is Aleksander Čeferin, a former Football Association of Slovenia president, who was elected as UEFA's seventh president at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens in September 2016, and automatically became a vice-president of the world body FIFA.In women's football UEFA also conducts the UEFA Women's Champions League for club teams.

) is the administrative body for association football in Europe, although several member states are primarily or entirely located in Asia.

It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Super Cup, and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions.

In futsal there is the UEFA Futsal Championship and UEFA Futsal Under-21 Championship.

Despite the existence of UEFA's Futsal and Beach soccer committee, UEFA does not organise any beach soccer competitions.

Additionally some UEFA member associations allow teams from outside their association's main territory to take part in their "domestic" competition. participate in the English League; Berwick Rangers, situated in England, play in the Scottish Professional Football League and Derry City, situated in Northern Ireland, play in the Republic of Ireland-based League of Ireland.

AS Monaco, for example, takes part in the French League (though a separate sovereign entity); Welsh clubs Cardiff City, Swansea City and Newport County A. UEFA runs official international competitions in Europe and some countries of Northern, Southwestern and Central Asia for national teams and professional clubs, known as UEFA competitions, some of which are regarded as the world's most prestigious tournaments.The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European Football Championship, started in 1958, with the first finals in 1960, and known as the European Nations Cup until 1964. UEFA also runs national competitions at Under-21, Under-19 and Under-17 levels.For women's national teams, UEFA operates the UEFA Women's Championship for senior national sides as well as Women's Under-19 and Women's Under-17 Championships.Some UEFA members are transcontinental states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Russia).Countries which had been members of the Asian Football Confederation were also admitted to the European football association, particularly Israel and Kazakhstan.The UEFA Champions League sponsors are also sponsors of the UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Women's Champions League and the UEFA Youth League (excluding Heineken, which is replaced by Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer.) The UEFA Europa League current main sponsors are: Adidas is a secondary sponsor and supplies the official match ball and referee uniform for all UEFA competitions.